Brian Kelley

Brian Kelley is an author, columnist, and Microsoft SQL Server MVP focusing primarily on SQL Server security. He is a contributing author for How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005 (Syngress), Professional SQL Server 2008 Administration (Wrox), and Introduction to SQL Server (Texas Publishing). Brian currently serves as an infrastructure and security architect. He has also served as a senior Microsoft SQL Server DBA, database architect, developer, and incident response team lead.
  • Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology

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Triggers in SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 - The Common Ground

This is a two part series on how triggers work in the two latest versions of MS SQL Server. Because there are some pretty significant additions in trigger functionality from 7.0 to 2000, we'll first need to look at what the two versions have in common. The second part to this series will look at the differences between the two MS SQL Server versions.

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2005-01-21 (first published: )

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PASS Summit 2004

Our resident SQL Server security expert, Brian Kelley, went with the SQLServerCentral.com crew to the 2004 PASS Summit in Orlando last month. He was kind enough to jot down a few notes on the conference for those of you that weren't there and are considering going next year.

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2004-10-12

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Review: Typhon III from NGSSoftware

Every shop with any sort of IT organization should be scanning for vulnerabilities and issues with their systems and SQL Server is no exception. Security software vendor has a tool that can scan and report on all your SQL Servers is an easy to use product called Typhon III. Our security expert Brian Kelley takes a look at this product.

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2004-10-07

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SQL Server Security: Dealing with Anti-Virus Programs

Do you run an anti-virus product on your SQL Servers? After all, it's recommended, more and more, that you run anti-virus on ALL machines you have. There's just too much stuff running around out there. But putting this on a SQL Server creates some interesting issues. Our resident security guru, Brian Kelley, looks at some of the things you need to consider when deploying anti-virus products on your servers.

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2004-05-13

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